[tschwimmer]

I don't agree that a bad live demo is a 3/10. The recent demo showed me conclusively that the Meta Ray Bans are not at the quality level where I would buy them, especially not for $800. That's pretty much a 0/10 in my book. Since it was live usage, it's indicative of the real quality of the product.

[layer8]

That live demo, despite the failures, unexpectedly made Meta much more likable to me than (say) the sterile and cringy prerecorded Apple events, which are just completely off-putting.

Furthermore, look at how the prerecorded Apple Intelligence demo at WWDC 2024 turned out, where more than a year later we still don’t know if and when its most salient features will see the light of day. Whereas with the Meta demo, we can assume that they were reasonably confident it would work on stage, and the failure may really just be due to the flaky wifi at the venue.

[Royce-CMR]

Yeah I agree. But I’ll split it slightly.

From a trust perspective I want a real demo. Technical team, deep dive, concept sold now talk me through it type stuff.

From a “show non-tech executives the art of the possible as part of 2026/2027 planning” I want a recording.

Failure in the latter isn’t a 3/10, it’s a -10/10.